Hammer in the Night
Album: Hans My Lion
By: Flying Fox and the Hunter/Gatherers
By: Flying Fox and the Hunter/Gatherers
Duration
4:37
Genres
Description
This song is inspired by a piece of heavy machinery that was drilling holes in the earth with a thunderous boom. This theme is juxtaposed with the often misunderstood topic of male sexuality as it is encountered from youth into adulthood.
Lyrics
(chorus:) hear my monster's heavy hands, hear the rumble of his pneumatic might, hear an unwed thrust into the land, and Bang. Bang. Bang. hear the hammer in the night, out in the open, and out in the rain, gaia gives birth to a south bound train. remember a childhood, remember a youth? it was a warm spring, it was a hot one, and he was asking with a shudder thud, to gets into position and slips into the mud. but love does he love you? love does he care? it is his duty; it is a job. at four o'clock he starts his opening theme, a rabid incarnation of industrial regime. we wouldn't call it music, but it's charming all the same, it is seductive in its ca- caphony, and it works well, though she doesn't need the courtship, she's always in heat. waiting with her chin up, waiting here and there for a suitor. (chorus) Voyeurageur, see the ripples on the pond, Voyeurageur, see the going going getting on bang out an orphan, with an orphanish pain his parents fuss and fight and leave a lonely little train. it's the same old tragic story, yes we've heard it all before, these organisms reproduce and nothing more. out in the sunshine, out in the open, a tormented lack-of-love-child is crying all alone. Waiting for his passengers, waiting for his people and here they are and they're angry, they say: (chorus)
